earthicus

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by earthicus 1y ago
This certainly won't solve the problem, but I would at least like to banish the term "side load", which is a kind of Orwellian word that takes something everyone used to do all the time and makes it sound obscure and a bit
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by earthicus 1y ago
I’ve thought quite a bit about getting a teacher, but have hesitated for a few [somewhat legitimate] reasons. Among them, I’m partially disabled and can’t practice consistently. However, having a teacher berate me about my posture would act
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by earthicus 1y ago
I recently started learning the piano as an adult, and from what i've gathered from reading and watching videos, the 'folk wisdom' about how to avoid rsi-type injuries is to minimize tension in your wrist by maximizing relax
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by earthicus 1y ago
Describing it as "Octopus DJ with no fingers" got rid of the hands for me, but interestingly, also removed every anthropomorphized element of the octopus, so that it was literally just an octopus spinning turntables.
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by earthicus 1y ago
I don't think that characterization is fair at all. It's certainly true that you, me, and most humans can't solve these problems with any amount of time or energy. But the problems are specifically written to be at the limi
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by earthicus 1y ago
I looked at the Typst documentation and from what I could tell, it has 3 hard-coded "Modes" for 3 hard-coded kinds of syntax (normal, math, code). I couldn't find any way to add any custom syntax - is there a way to do this?
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by earthicus 1y ago
"The researchers analyzed bilingual dictionaries between English and more than 600 languages, looking for what they call “lexical elaboration,” in which a language has many words related to a core concept. It’s the same phenomenon that
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by earthicus 1y ago
The researchers discussed the study here (also linked towards the end of the article): https://old.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1k8b2hj/meta_...
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A Retrospective on Region-Based Memory Management (2004) [pdf](elsman.com)
7 points by earthicus 1y ago|0 comments
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by earthicus 2y ago
I think the issue was that they are representing a real as a product of a rational and that more complicated type, so without a symbolic representation for 1, when representing and rational, they would have to multiply it by a RRA represe
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by earthicus 2y ago
It was discovered that the procedure mechanism of Algol 60 was effectively equivalent to the lambda calulus. This insight was written out in a famous paper by Peter Landin, "Correspondence between ALGOL 60 and Church's Lambda-nota
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(Half-True) Stories about the B5000 and the people who were there (1979) [pdf](archive.computerhistory.org)
4 points by earthicus 2y ago|1 comments
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by earthicus 2y ago
Frank Wilczek has argued for something similar to this point of view. Here's a non-technical 'op-ed' where he discusses it: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7pl5V0YU9taaXE0ZWJNRzlHNlU...
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by earthicus 2y ago
A mathematics degree will have some kind of 'transition to higher mathematics' course that you take your freshman or sophomore year. You meticulously work with sets, definitions/theorem/proofs in a simple setting, and es
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Merge Strategies: From Merge Sort to TimSort [pdf](hal.science)
2 points by earthicus 3y ago|0 comments
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by earthicus 3y ago
It's amazing how far we've come in a few centuries. From sketching a few visible features with the help of a telescope, to mapping out the microscopic variations in the moons gravitational field[1] with robot satellites! [1] http
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by earthicus 4y ago
I agree with you that academic summary works are probably the best way for a non-researcher to learn what exists, what's known (and what isn't). Since i've never seen them discussed or referenced on this website, let me also
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by earthicus 4y ago
"Python's predecessor, ABC, was inspired by SETL -- Lambert Meertens spent a year with the SETL group at NYU before coming up with the final ABC design!" --Guido van Rossum https://mail.python.org/pipermail&#x
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by earthicus 4y ago
Here [1] is a great (short, readable) paper from 2015 that explains Timsort and similar stack-merge sorting algorithms. It also gives a runtime analysis, and a simplified version of the algorithm that they call 'alpha-sort'. [1]
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by earthicus 5y ago
My vulnerability is that I take immunosuppresants, which makes the vaccines significantly less effective (last I heard a few months ago, fully half of the breakthrough infections of the vaccinated were in the small population of immunosuppr
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by earthicus 6y ago
Here's a nice 20min presentation by Nima Arkani-Hamed in favor of a new collider: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb4zv80qs3Q
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by earthicus 6y ago
The American Mathematical Society has a long catalog of reviews of mathematics books, although they are often very short and not enlightening by themselves: https://www.ams.org/publicoutreach/math-in-the-media/revi
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by earthicus 6y ago
There were quite a few utopian socialist (not necessarily anarchist) projects started in the United States in the 19th century, especially following the proto-socialist Charles Fourier. Wikipedia has a list based on a wide variety of differ
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by earthicus 6y ago
>spread in places like the Bay Area may have started as early as January This is known for certain in Seattle. The first case was in mid-January[1], then six weeks passed before the big outbreak started and genetic sequencing showed that
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Geometry Central: library of data structures, algorithms for geometry processing(geometry-central.net)
2 points by earthicus 6y ago|0 comments
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by earthicus 6y ago
I briefly studied mathematical biology, and remember there being some debate about whether tumor growth was more accurately modeled by logistic growth or Gompertz growth [1]. I'd be curious to know whether your fits get better or worse
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UW looking to hire full-stack software developers to track Covid19 in Seattle(twitter.com)
2 points by earthicus 7y ago|0 comments
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by earthicus 7y ago
Very interesting article! Here is a more technical talk that describes 'fast scramblers' and some of the same kind of experimental proposals that the article is discussing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hmToNdDe
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by earthicus 7y ago
What an incredible life Freeman Dyson had. The next time you have an hour free, I'd urge you to watch this autobiographical lecture he gave in 2011, "On living through four revolutions". In it, he describes his experience wit
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Implementing for Loops and Iterators in Standard ML(mlton.org)
6 points by earthicus 7y ago|0 comments

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